This week I released the first episodes of the 3 new weekly shows I’m producing for the Bloop Animation YouTube channel. I want to explain the logic behind each of them, and how they work to improve the business directly. In terms of pushing my business forward (which currently revolves mostly around learning products such as online courses and book about …

Over your lifetime there are many milestones along the way to indicate where you’re going, and how well your journey is coming along. These things take the form of grades, diplomas, valedictorians, extra curricular activities, a kind word from a teacher, scholarships or contests. Then later in life they become raises, promotions, bonuses, awards, peer reviews, performance reviews, and so forth. We are …

Upon graduation I wanted a few things: I wanted to be hired by Pixar. I wanted to win awards. I wanted to get hired as a director. I wanted to make movies. I wanted a lot of things that required other people’s permission. With thousands of you graduating this month, I wanted to share my graduation story, and how I had to pick myself instead …

This post is going to be different. I will not tell you what I think about a certain aspect of online business, but share something I’m struggling with (in online business). I’ve reached a point in my animation business that I didn’t plan for. I’ve reached most of the goals I’ve set for this business. It has a lot of great products (with …

Vision and big thinking often cripples people in the process of doing the work. We tend to come up with an idea, and then blow it up so big in our minds that it hinders us from moving forward with the smaller things that make up the actual work. We start with an idea, let’s say it’s an idea for …

In this post I will go over Bloop Animation’s 3 core tenets, and expand on each of them individually. Why is this important? Companies often have what they call their “Core values” or “Mission statement”. These values could be just a bunch of corporate sounding words, or they could be a creed the company lives by. Bloop is a relatively new company, …

Everybody wants to have a lot of money, I know. The reasons might vary, though. I’m not talking about the kind of money to make ends meet, to pay my bills etc. It’s not the amount of money I want to make personally as myself that I’m going to talk about in this post, but the money I want my business …